“It is an Unlawful order for a Military leader to direct a warfighter to not make critical comments about the President and his policies or any other elected official. If you are told otherwise, respectfully show them the Constitution. Political Correctness doesn’t change us, it shuts us up.” Sgt. Gary Stein wrote in a March 6 post on the Facebook site.
Sgt. Gary Stein
A GOP congressman is reaching out to military leadership in defense of a Marine sergeant facing dismissal from the Corps after posting comments critical of the president on a Facebook page.
Sgt. Gary Stein, an outspoken conservative who began a Facebook page called Armed Forces Tea Party, faces allegations that he violated DoD policy in engaging in political activity while in his capacity as an active-duty service member.
On the site, Stein posted critiques of the Obama administration, big government, and taxation.
“It is an Unlawful order for a Military leader to direct a warfighter to not make critical comments about the President and his policies or any other elected official,” Stein wrote in a March 6 post on the Facebook site. “If you are told otherwise, respectfully show them the Constitution. Political Correctness doesn’t change us, it shuts us up.”
On March 8, the Corps began an inquiry into his extracurricular activities, following the probe with administrative action and ordering Stein to appear before an administrative separation board that would likely opt to end his career under other-than-honorable conditions.
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